2013 Gandhi Peace Award

Bill McKibben

2013 Gandhi Peace Award Laureate

April 18, 2013

Bill McKibben is the principal co-founder of the grassroots climate campaign 350.org, which has coordinated over 15 thousand rallies in 189 countries since 2009. He has written a dozen books about the environment, beginning with The End of Nature in 1989, now available in more than 20 languages, which is regarded as the first book for a general audience on climate change.

Now widely recognized as the nation’s leading environmental activist, Time Magazine called him “the planet’s best green journalist” while the Boston Globe hailed him as “probably the country’s most important environmentalist.”

Bill McKibben is the first environmentalist to receive the Gandhi Peace Award, in recognition of the contributions to world peace made by committed environmental movement leaders such as Bill McKibben and by his consistently effective efforts to highlight the connection between local environmental dangers and their regional and global consequences.

In making this Award, PEP commits itself to the fusion of the now-separate movements for world peace and environmental harmony, given that that a sustainable civilization requires both, and that neither can be achieved without the other.